By bringing technology closer, we can get it out of the way. This and other core concepts, design guidelines, UX paradigms, and APIs will be introduced as a baseline for Google Glass Development. Excellent examples will be shown and used to codify everything into a set of best practices. If …
Writing CSS is a pain in the ass and should be considered harmful if performed on a daily basis without your mind getting reset every night. It can also be a big honking mess if you have twenty developers or more all mocking about in the same CSS code base. …
Why do we all know a developer who has been pounding out unmaintainable code for a decade or more? Why do people “believe in TDD but I don’t have time to write tests during crunch?” How is it that we have an entire industry based around rescuing teams from acutely …
Chargify.com’s customers rely on us to process payments for them 24 hours a day. We do not have any planned maintenance windows: we’re simply expected to be up all the time. We recently migrated from a private datacenter to EC2, moving all our operations and data across the country with …
Programmers are the wizards of our age. We weave the fabric of the modern society, tell the stories and bring dreams to life. Geeks are ruling the world of today and programmers make it all happen. The uninitiated marvel at what we accomplish without an inkling about how everything comes …
Four months ago Julia Grace had never even seen a Django template. But she is an engineer; coming up to speed couldn’t be that hard, right? Wrong. Doing so efficiently and effectively was tough.
